Does English have a Middle Voice? |
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Added: May 2004 |
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| ... - 26th September 2004 13:25
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| I can't think of any verbs that mean "I ___ myself."
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| Robertson Frizero Barros - 14th April 2005 14:12
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We can say that the English middle voice occurs when you have a verb which is syntatically active but semantically passive.
e.g.: "The broth cooked very fast."
=>In this example, the verb TO COOK is in the active voice, but semantically we understand that the noun BROTH "suffers" the action TO COOK.
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